Ok, I figured it out. Thanks for your help guys. If anybody else is searching this group looking for the answer, you want the sys._getframe() function.
sys._getframe(1).f_locals['a'] = 1 if you put the above in a function in a module, it creates a variable 'a' in the namespace of whatever calls the function in the module. I know this may make people cringe, but since I'm trying to basically create a language, of which python is a subset, it's actually exactly what I need to do. -Justin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
